HEALTH OF WOMAN.2015.4(100):126–128; doi 10.15574/HW.2015.100.126 
 

Infertility and personality of the late reproductive age patients with the endometrial pathology 
 

Korniyenko S. M.

Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynаecology, Kyiv, Ukraine 
 

The high degree of social maladjustment among infertile women of the late reproductive age points out to the special importance of psychological factors in the diagnosis and treatment of this category of patients. In order to study the specificity of the personal profile of women of late reproductive age, infertility, examined 169 patients with different clinical forms of endometrial pathology. Endometrial polyp was detected in 97 (57.4%), endometrial hyperplasia – in 40 (23.7%), chronic endometritis – in 61 (36.1%), adhesions – in 11 (6.5%), adenomatosis – at 3 (1.8%) patients. Combined pathology of the endometrium was observed in 45 (26.6%) women. Infertility suffered 62 (36.7%) patients: primary infertility was observed in 21 women, the secondary – at 41. It was found that in secondary infertility case the low spontaneous aggression was observed in 1.8 times more often, less shyness – 6.1 times more often than high degree of openness – 1.8 times less that high emotional labiality – 2.4 times less often than in the primary infertility. In patients with secondary infertility, having children, 3.4 times less often high degree of sociability, 3.1 times more often – high neurosality, 1.4 times less – low spontaneous aggressiveness, 4.3 times more often – low extraversion compared to the second infertile women without children. Severe depression was detected in every fourth patient fertile and only in rare cases, infertility. It is concluded that in infertile women of late reproductive age with abnormal endometrial much less observed depression and more frequent such personal qualities as sociability, extraversion and masculinity; patients with primary infertility largely spontaneous inherent aggressiveness, shyness and emotional lability compared to the secondly infertile; dysfunctional personality traits are least likely to occur in patients with secondary infertility; personality profile secondarily infertile women with children, close to the profile of the person fertile reproductive age patients with pathology of the endometrium. 
 

Key words: endometrial pathology, late reproductive age, infertility, questionnaire FPI. 
 

REFERENCES

1. Adamov M.M. 2012. Psychological characteristics of women who used to treat infertility with assisted reproductive technologies. Women’s Health 8:198–200.

2. Kolesnikov DB, Ermolenko KS, Solovyov AV. 2013. The mental state of women with infertility in older reproductive age. Clinical Medicine 6:38–41.

3. Kornienko SM. 2013. Personality profile women of late reproductive and premenopausal age with abnormal endometrial. Medical-social Problems of the family. 18;3:69–74.

4. Potemkin EA. 2009. Personal characteristics associated with chronic gynecological diseases in women of reproductive age. Urals medical journal 6:17–24.

5. Balin VJ, Gaida VK, Gerbachevsky VK et al, Ed. Krylova AA, Manicheva SA. 2006. Workshop on general, experimental and applied psychology. 2nd ed. SPb. Peter: 560.

6. Yasukevich JV, Urazaev AM, Berestneva OG, Shelekhov IL, Minenko LI, Shabanov LV. 2009. Development of the personality of women as the subject of reproductive behavior in the modern system of social roles. Bulletin of Tomsk State Pedagogical University 11:120–125.

7. Fedin LP. 2011. The study of the individual psychological characteristics of infertile couples who have entered into protocols in vitro fertilization. Herald SMSUH. MA Sholokhov. 1:103–108.

8. Shlemkevich AM, Vdovichenko SY. 2009. Borderline mental disorders in patients with the treatment of infertility by methods of assisted reproductive technology. Women’s Health 6:187–189.

9. Bidzan M, Podolska M, Bidzan L, Smutek J. 2011. Personality traits and the feeling of loneliness of women treated for infertility. Ginekol. Pol. 82(7):508–513.

10. Rockliff HE, Lightman SL, Rhidian E, Buchanan H, Gordon U, Vedhara KA. 2014. A systematic review of psychosocial factors associated with emotional adjustment in vitro fertilization patients. Hum Reprod Update. 20(4):594–613.

11. Volgsten H, Ekselius L, Poromaa IS, Svanberg AS. 2010. Personality traits associated with depressive and anxiety disorders in infertile women and men undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 89(1):27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00016340903447396; PMid:19947903

12. Wilkins KM, Warnock JK, Serrano E. Depressive symptoms related to infertility and infertility treatments. Psychiatr.Clin. North. Am. 33(2):309–321.